There are many cases today that are being overturned and overruled by the justice system. People who are convicted and sentenced for crimes that they never commit are sent to jail wrongfully, and waste their whole life in jail until they are released. In some cases people are even wrongfully executed. Why must all of this occur in the first place? Can’t the justice system decide who is, and who is not guilty?
The answer is that many expert witnesses that are placed on the stand today do not know what they are talking about. This was the case in Texas about twenty years ago where one man was arrested and convicted of arson. The problem was that he never set fire to the house. His daughters died in the fire that day, and the police and forensic investigators believed that the fire was set intentionally, and that an accelerant was used. They found the point of origin of the fire and thought that the father set fire to his own house.
During the trial experts stated that the fire was set intentionally. They stated that the man was an arsonist. He was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Years after the conviction new technology appeared that showed police that the fire could have been purely accidental. This means that an innocent man was convicted and killed for a crime he did not commit. I believe that this is an outrage.
Cases like this arson case above happen all the time. Men serve sentences for decades only to be freed on a later date for crimes that they do not commit. After they are let go they have no-one to turn to, and minute cash advancement that acts as a formal “I’m sorry” from the state. I believe that no man should go to jail unless the prosecution proves him to be 100% guilty. I also believe that experts should not testify unless their decisions are based on facts, with technology that is not faulty.
